YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!!! - Un-classic Box Art
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10 12 October, 14:15
Andrzej RygielNice collection of WTF box arts 🙂. To be fair, majority of them are from the ancient era (60's/70's/80's) of modelling, nobody focused that much on what's on the box back then (but there were also really nice looking artistic pieces from those times that I remember). I'll try to find some newer (90's and onward) box arts that I consider a "failed mission in marketing" - this one is a nice example from 2021 --> Saab TF-35 Draken (Skale Wings SS-72001, 1:72), and this one a bit older (2003), but also has a high WTF factor --> Messerschmitt Bf-109E 3/4 "H..tenkrad (Academy 2214, 1:72).
12 October, 14:56
Robert PodkońskiAnd the next one to your collection, gorby:
Saunders-Roe SR-53 (URSUS , 1:72)
12 October, 19:52
Ben MI built that thunderceptor (photo 32) when I was a kid. I got it at a 5 and dime store. I recall I painted it testors metallic gloss red.
12 October, 20:57
Robert PodkońskiAaaaaand my favourite:
PZL P-23 a Karas (RUCH MK006, 1:72)
PZL P-23a (Coopexim , 1:72)
PZL-23A Karaś (RUCH , 1:72)
PZL P.23A Karaś (PZW , 1:72)
which one do you like most? 😄
Don't you dare look at the contents - what's most unbelievable: the same moulds are used now to produce "new" kits:
PZL P-23B Karas (BIGMODEL K72046, 1:72)
12 October, 21:04
gorbyThanks for your comments. Some excellent examples Robert, particularly the first three PZL P.23. 😄
13 October, 07:14
gorbyYes it bugs me when classic box-art is altered to remove any sign of unpleasantness. This is an ideal example.
Superfortress (Airfix 07001-4, 1:72)
Boeing B-29 Superfortress (Airfix A07001, 1:72)
One is full of action and the other is dull.
13 October, 13:49
Robert PodkońskiStill, I love the Lindberg's rendering of MiG-19... and Soviet "Warhawk" - quite inspiring, isn't it 😉
13 October, 14:06
gorbyThe Warhawk is unbelievable! It looks nothing like the real aircraft. I'd love to see the model.
13 October, 15:25
Mark SherwoodThat Airfix B-29 re-mastered cover art is an affront to the Royal Cross original.
13 October, 16:44
gorbyI've just Googled it Ben and it doesn't great, but not as bad as I thought it would. I think I'll save my 15 euro. 😉
I agree Mark (incidentally, the predictive text has change Roy to Royal).
I didn't notice that Martin. 😄
13 October, 17:28
Robert PodkońskiConvair on the picture apparently has no engines, but drop tanks instead 😄 😄 😄t
And here is the next piece of art from Trumpeter:
MiG-15 UTI mixed with Caproni-Stipa by Chinese:
PLA Air Force FT-5 Trainer (Trumpeter 02203, 1:32)
And a few more from Trumpeter:
Chinese Y-5 (Trumpeter 01602, 1:72)
and Airbus Beluga with all-moving tail 😄
A300-600ST Beluga (Trumpeter 00604, 1:144)
and finally, Iliushin Il-28:
Chinese Bomb-5 (Trumpeter 01603, 1:72)
13 October, 19:12
Mark SherwoodTo my previous post, re the B29 box art. It is the inimitable Roy Cross. The reason I bought Airfix. 🤟🥸🤘
13 October, 19:12
gorbyTrumpeter have a rich history of dreadful box-art, that Y-5 is particularly painful. 😄
14 October, 06:41
TreehuggerOh, wow, what a weird looking Voodoo F-101. Hm, I suppose it might be some prototype jet variant.
14 October, 08:26
Ludvík KružíkVery interesting collection of boxart. 👍
There is a reason for the shape of the boxarts made in the Soviet Union. The incompetence of the Soviet industry and the political situation influenced the creation not only of boxarts, but of entire kits produced in the former Soviet Union. Lousy boxarts were defended by claiming that the attractive color pictures on Western boxarts were just capitalist tinsel and bourgeois detailism. And a socialist doesn't need such things.
The model's box was made of poor quality cardboard with mostly two-color printing. From the modest Cyrillic inscription on the box one could read that the box contained a kit of model aircraft number xxxx, or at best, even more accurately, that it was, for example, a fighter aircraft. The instructions for building the model were printed on stiff paper, which could be successfully used as sheet metal. It contained only pictorial instructions for building the model. Any detailed information (colours, camouflage, what kind of machine it was and where it was used...) was missing. In most cases, decals were also missing. In some kits the decals were replaced by stickers. Most of these kits were pressed by the leading company Frog, which was acquired by the Soviets in the second half of the 1970s.
Curiously, the same models, but intended for the Western market, were produced under the NOVO brand. The quality and content of these kits were comparable to the original FROG kits.
14 October, 12:05
Robert PodkońskiActually, Beaufighter is described here as "morskoj shturmovik" = "sea/navy assault plane"...
14 October, 14:36
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These are the worst examples of box art that I could find, some you wouldn't believe any self respecting company would want their product associated with. You'd think the least they could do is employ an artist rather than the managers pre-teen nephew. Let's hope the kit was better than the box.
The vast majority are aircraft because it seems that aircraft must be harder to paint. Either that or the worst 'artists' are drawn to wingy things. Most are from the early days of model kits although some are frighteningly more recent. You're unlikely to hang any of these on your wall unless you have masochistic tendencies.
To any art lovers, I'm sorry, this'll hurt.